It is an excellent thing; nothing could be better." "What do you mean ?" asked Mr.Dale.
"Mean ?" cried his wife.

"What should I be apt to mean?
You have no sense about such things, Henry." "Oh," said her husband meekly, "you want them to fall in love ?" "Well, really," she answered, leaning back in her chair, and tapping her foot impatiently, "I do not see how my husband can be so silly.

One would think I was a matchmaker, and no one detests anything of that sort as I do,--no one! Fall in love, indeed! I think the expression is positively indelicate, Henry.

Of course, if Lois should be well married, I should be grateful; and if it should be Mr.Forsythe, I should only feel I had done my duty in urging Arabella to take a house in Ashurst." "Oh, you urged her ?" "I wrote her Ashurst was very pleasant," Mrs.Dale acknowledged, "and it was considered healthy.

(I understand Arabella!) I knew her son was going abroad later in the summer, but I thought, if he once got here"-- "Ah," responded Mr.Dale..